Unable to change language, SOLVED

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 14 February 2015 17:16:31 Bertil wrote:
> > You have to edit the "environement" file using a program
> > like "Notepad" but with administrative rights.
> > So in the list of "All Programs" Choose "Accesories"
> > Right click on "Notepad" and choose "Run as administrator"
> > then edit the file as explained in GnuCash documentation.
> > 
> > I believe that the file is protected by the operating system
> > and if you edit it without admin rights you believe it modified
> > but it is not.
> > 
> > Good day to all
> > 
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> 
> This does not work for me. To clarify, when I run Windows 7 English
> language and set the gnucash language to Swedish (sv_SE or sv_SV ) it
> does not work. If I change language for Windows to Swedish, also
> Gnucash is swedish.
> 
> Back on Windows set to English. I tested changing language to Italian
> in Gnucash, it_IT and gnucash language changed to italian. Then I
> copied the swedish language files to it folder in <Gnucash install
> folder>\share\locale\it\LC_MESSAGES
> 
> Now I have swedish language in gnucash, hence gnucash does not seam to
> identify sv_SV, sv_SE or any other suggested combinations.
> 
> Any suggestions, is this a bug?
> 
Yes, this is very likely a bug. And most likely this bug is in the gtk library gnucash depends upon, 
not in the gnucash code itself. It is reported against gnucash as well however [1].

Geert

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725296